Kait Dron is a dance artist based in the UK. Born and raised in the South-East of England, she worked internationally in the fashion industry under an alias for ten years before moving into performance. She now performs and teaches Butoh regularly in Devon and London.

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Trained in Butoh – an avant-garde performance art originating in post-war Japan with a focus on presence, imagination and metamorphosis through deep sensing – she has studied with influential teachers, including Seiji Tanaka, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Imre Thormann, as well as with the Oxford-based Butoh company Café Reason and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie.

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Alongside ongoing apprenticeship to landscape, she completed the MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional programme at Trinity Laban, London, on a Leverhulme Scholarship, graduating with distinction. She has also studied at the Temenos Academy, London, and completed both a CertHE in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at West Dean College.

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She views the body as poetic utterance, engaging in dialogue with the living world. Her practice is deeply informed by land-based movement, textual arts, and mythic narratives, exploring the intersection of body, imagination, spirit and landscape.

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Kait looks at how aesthetic, performance and poetic practices can generate knowledge and ignite discussion, enabling embodied, emergent and participatory forms of insight.

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Her work continually questions what beauty truly is, embracing it as powerful, dangerous, and honest; involving frailty and paradox; unbound by aesthetic rules; and spanning from the soft and sensuous to the raging and grotesque, joyful and deadly.

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Her teaching intends to develop faculties of imagination and deep sensing in the body through movement, playful exercises and immersive journeys into the imaginal through story and poetry. Mostly artists and dancers attend, but anyone interested in exploring their body and contemplation through movement and imagination is welcome to come.

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Her research focuses on movement as theological inquiry, contemplating the body as gift, theophany and hermeneutic. She considers images as interactive messengers and looks towards what it is to be changed by encounter with reality through images, considering this transformation to be a divine event.

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Whilst the regular classes and more immersive workshops are secular, she also runs intentionally theologically focused events centred around scriptural study of the Song of Songs involving slow reading, group contemplation, mark-making and movement.

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Kait choreographs and performs solo works, gives performance lectures, and collaborates regularly with other artists and teachers. For collaborations, teaching, or performance enquiries, she can be contacted here: kait@being.land

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Read her Substack here.